Seavey Visiting Writers Series presents Aminatta Forna
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Benjamin Apple Meeting Rooms, Susquehanna University 514 University Avenue, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania 17870
Aminatta Forna is the award-winning author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the critically acclaimed memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her fiction has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award and the PEN Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; was short-listed for the Neustadt Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the IMPAC Award, the Warwick Prize; and nominated for the European Prize for Fiction. Her memoir was serialized on BBC Radio and in The Sunday Times newspaper. Forna is currently a Lannan visiting chair at Georgetown University. Event is free and open to the public.